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One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Depending on the president’s decisions, a restructuring could wipe out existing shareholders or alternatively see them realize a return of hundreds of billions of dollars on their investments.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

The Dodgers could alternatively get aggressive on the trade market.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Or would she alternatively feel the moral weight of not having rescued him from his hate?

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2025

Children’s knowledge of how to use a tool could be a result of their experience with the tool; alternatively, it could be a result of their perceiving the tool’s affordances from shape and manipulability cues.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker